Appeal No. 1998-1815 Page 3
Application No. 08/684,328
said operating step including operating at least
one local sense amplifier drive transistor to
provide power to said latch;
coupling said first voltage to a control
electrode of a first read amplifier transistor in a
local read amplifier communicating with said sense
amplifier latch; and
generating a pair of differential signals via
said local read amplifier based on said first
voltage and the state of said first read amplifier
transistor;
wherein said differential signals are generated
without disturbing said first internal latch node.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
U.S. Patent Application 08/674,282 ('282
Application)
(filed July 1, 1996)
U.S. Patent Application 08/284,183 ('183 Application)
(filed Aug. 2, 1994)
Young 5,247,479 Sep. 21, 1993
(filed May 23, 1991)
Toshiba et al. (Toshiba), European Patent
Application
0 175 880 Apr. 2,
1986.
Claims 30-40 and 45-46 stand provisionally rejected under the
doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as unpatentable
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